SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. Andra has bachelor’s degrees in computer information systems, marketing, and international business from Indiana University Kelly School of Business.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When business-critical applications move out of the data center with “lift and shift”. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. Once you have your tool of choice, you can get down to business.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $191,286/yr. Average salary: $100,340/yr.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. I think it’s more around a consciousness of what you know, or what you may not know, and then hiring around it to become successful. Evgenia : Personally, I don’t think so.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. Now’s the Time to Revisit Your Pricing. SaaS pricing is one of the most important (but difficult) decisions a new business makes.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. Seema: You’ve got about three phases in the business model.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. . MRR numbers were changing all the time.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth. Siloed tools mean siloed data and siloed teams. This is marketing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. There is a problem if you and your business are still relying on paper trails and old-school bookkeeping to manage your expenses. Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Personal card management. Enterprise.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Initially, businesses only see a few basic requirements, but later realize there is much more hidden below the surface as it relates to the ongoing creation and maintenance of custom code. Anything that falls into the Non-Strategic and Non-Critical the company should disregard; it doesn’t need to be part of their business.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Find innovators (10:36). ? Business starts with “busi” (23:00). ? This is all about those David and Goliath situations we all face early on in our business. If you think it’s hard to work at one of the world’s largest companies and close business, then you have not sold from a startup. 3% (24:26). ?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. First it was Wistia , followed shortly thereafter by Buffer ; both buyouts a sort of declaration of independence that gave both companies back the ability to build their businesses on their own terms. They had built a highly profitable business that was generally adored by its customers.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments. It helped them overcome some of the initial challenges, but over time it started creating other problems. MRR numbers were changing all the time.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

My father was an entrepreneur, but he was building pump companies, very different businesses. And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. And at that same time I met two Stanford computer science students.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. Is your title CTO?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. Is your title CTO?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25)

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Cassie’s time in tech dates back to 2006, when she joined TheLadders.com as an early employee and managed marketing and analytics for the company’s subscription business. Discussed in this Episode: The turnaround story of Cassie’s time at Sailthru and overcoming scaling challenges. But you and I both know.

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

Ive seen various online forum discussions where people often share short-term fixes like heavy marketing or minor feature tweaks, hoping to retain more users. Before we analyze why your app’s user retention rate is declining, lets start with understanding what user retention is and why it is important for your business.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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